Other forms: carrots
A carrot is a long orange vegetable that rabbits love. Grate a carrot, carrot cake, carrots and peas.
Orange ones are recent — most old carrots were purple, white or yellow, and Dutch growers made orange the standard in the seventeenth century. The story that they help you see in the dark was wartime propaganda hiding radar. Carrot and stick means reward and punishment.
1nouncarrotA long orange root vegetable.
“The rabbit nibbled on a carrot from the garden.”
carrot is a vegetable.
Latin carota comes from Greek karoton. The vegetable reached English through Middle French carotte.
Middle English
karette
English, today
carrot
Built from
From Middle English karette. Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν. a doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native more, from more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to Möhre.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA